10 Best Movies & TV Shows Starring Kaley Cuoco

10. Virtuosity (1995)

One of Cuoco's earliest (and smallest) film roles is in the 1995 science fiction thriller Virtuosity, directed by Brett Leonard.

The film focuses on a virtual reality simulation created by using the personalities of multiple serial killers, an entity known as SID 6.7 (Russell Crowe). When the simulation escapes and takes on a human form, Lieutenant Parker Barnes (Denzel Washington) and criminal psychologist Dr. Madison Carter (Kelly Lynch) team up to try and contain the threat.

Cuoco plays Karin, Dr. Carter's young daughter. Late in the film, Karin is kidnapped by SID and trapped inside an air vent that is rigged to explode. Barnes manages to destroy SID's human form, but without discovering Karin's location, meaning he has to travel into the virtual reality engine to find out where she is.

Although Virtuosity was a box office bomb and didn't exactly win over the critics either, the film's visual effects and central idea still make it more memorable than it seems. Leonard has a reputation for films that pushed boundaries of visual effects and technology, while the virtual reality film is pioneering for a movie that came out several years before The Matrix - which pushed such premises to their limit.